Yes, it’s true. Gardening has become a battle in my southern California yard. A battle against the bunnies. Bunnies are cute and cuddly, right? Yes, but they’re also hungry. They aren’t happy with the grass and clovers and other things that are readily available. They want my plants. In particular, my strawberries and radishes. Not fun. Not fun at all. See?
Those little critters were chomping on the leaves of my radishes. Thankfully, I have an all natural spray (made of garlic) that the bunnies don’t like, so they stopped after chomping on a couple of leaves.
Look at that! I should have provided a physical barrier between the bunnies and my strawberries, but I thought my all-natural spray would be enough. It was enough to keep them from eating the leaves, but not enough to keep them from taking a nibble. See? Look closely. A bunny bit off the entire stem, then left it on the ground. AHH!! Maybe strawberries and me were not meant to be…
Thankfully, most of my garden is doing well. Take a look.
My yellow cherry tomatoes are coming along. A couple look like they will be ready to harvest very soon.
My regular tomato plant still has only two tomatoes, but they’re growing, and new flowers are forming now that we have a break in the heat-wave. It was about 100 degrees last week, which is not so good for tomatoes.
My pepper plants from last year are fruiting!
This one is doing particularly well. There are three peppers and numerous flowers on the bottom portion of the plant, and the top portion has one good pepper and a few flowers. Things are looking good.
My oranges are growing well.
My eggplant has recovered from the attack of the bunnies and is finally flowering! Maybe I’ll have eggplant after all.
My zucchini plant has really started to grow in the last week or so. It’s expanding and is starting to flower. Hopefully I’ll actually get zucchini out of it this year.
And what’s this pokey little thing? One of my three spaghetti squash plants I grew from seed. All three are growing and doing well, but this one is the farthest along. My fingers are crossed, hoping they continue to grow.